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Global environmental controls of diversity in large herbivores

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Han Olff, Mark E. Ritchie, Herbert H. T. Prins (2002). Global environmental controls of diversity in large herbivores. Nature, 415(6874), 901-904. https://doi.org/10.1038/415901a
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